SPIE exists to serve people working in optics and photonics research, education, industry, and policy. SPIE is able to make this impact because of the dedicated volunteers who serve on SPIE committees and the Board of Directors. These people steer our decisions and activities, and ultimately determine how those $4 million dollars of community support are spent.
Every year, SPIE Members have the opportunity to elect the leadership who will guide the direction of SPIE. In the 2019 election, four new directors and a secretary/treasurer will be elected, in addition to a new vice president.
The candidates for vice president are SPIE Fellows Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University, and Kyle Myers, director of the Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability for the US Food and Drug Administration.
The person elected vice president for 2020 will join the SPIE presidential chain, becoming SPIE president-elect in 2021 and president of the Society in 2022. The officers currently in the presidential chain are SPIE President Jim Oschmann, retired from Ball Aerospace, SPIE President-Elect John Grievenkamp of the University of Arizona, and SPIE Vice President David Andrews of the University of East Anglia.
Four positions are open for SPIE directors, who will serve three-year terms. The candidates are:
- Dan Curticapean, Offenburg University (Germany)
- Anderson Gomes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
- Babak Parviz, Amazon Web Services (USA)
- Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, The University of Queensland (Australia)
- Cristina Solano, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (Mexico)
- Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
- J. Scott Tyo, University of New South Wales Canberra (Australia)
- Katie Schwertz, Edmund Optics, Inc. (USA)
SPIE President Jim Oschmann will become immediate past president. He will announce the election results at the SPIE Annual General Meeting at Optics + Photonics in San Diego, California, on 13 August.
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